Year: 2005

  • VARs On Guard Against August Virus Outbreaks

    VARs On Guard Against August Virus Outbreaks

    Channel Insider Staff

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    For many, August means summer vacations and watermelon, not desperate struggles with newly emerging viruses and other types of malware. For IT folk, however, summer heat and security threats go hand in hand. “August is a big month for viruses. We know when all the big viruses have gone out in the last fifteen years,… Read more

  • Managed Services Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

    Managed Services Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

    Elliot Markowitz

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    The managed business model seems tailor-made for the VAR community. Any VAR not seriously looking into providing this type of service for its clients, whether it be on the database, network, security, server or storage management front, is missing a huge opportunity. And I am here to tell you that 99 percent of VARs that… Read more

  • IBM Woos SMBs with Open-Source Tools

    IBM Woos SMBs with Open-Source Tools

    Shelley Solheim

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    IBM has announced plans to extend Linux support for its collaboration tools and to release to the open-source community its framework for searching unstructured data. Continuing its push to woo small businesses into adopting its portal-based Workplace Services Express team collaboration offering, IBM teamed up with Red Hat Inc. to make it easier for SMBs… Read more

  • Intel Cuts P4 Prices

    Intel Cuts P4 Prices

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Intel Corp. over the weekend cut prices on its 64-bit line of desktop processors. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker reduced the cost of its five single-core Pentium 4 6xx chips from 20.15 percent to 33.72 percent. All feature 2MB of Level 2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, with the key difference being the… Read more

  • Analysis: Serious SATA Steps In for Storage

    Analysis: Serious SATA Steps In for Storage

    Henry Baltazar

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    With 400GB total capacity, 7,200 rpm and 16MB of onboard cache, the current specs of the new Western Digital WD Caviar RE2 may look pretty boring—until you discover that the drive is designed for 24/7 duty cycles. Why am I making a big fuss over a hard-working SATA (Serial ATA) drive? With 24/7 levels of… Read more

  • Intel Swaps Clock Speed for Power Efficiency

    Intel Swaps Clock Speed for Power Efficiency

    John G. Spooner

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    Intel, which next week is expected to announce plans to move to a new processor architecture, is switching to a new yardstick to measure processor performance: performance per watt. Intel Corp. is expected to detail next week at its IDF (Intel Developer Forum) a plan to begin building multicore chips with the architecture, a modified… Read more